By Chris Mills | February 22, 2012 at 4:37 pm | No comments
Kansas City-based flame-spitter, Riv Locc, has a new release coming out soon titled "I Keep It Lit". But today we bring you a mediafire link to the first freebie single (of the same title) released off that project featuring The Popper. In related news, Riv is about to have...
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By Chris Mills | February 21, 2012 at 7:51 pm | No comments
Mansions On The Moon, Lightyears Tour 2012 from CRÜZ ON TOUR on Vimeo.
Mansions on the Moon's airy, acoustic-electronic feel has touched a variety of styles coalescing in a box of some rather sweet ear candy since we began following them nearly two years ago. But guess...
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By Chris Mills | February 20, 2012 at 10:01 am | No comments
Ex-Demencha cover artist, KC's own Nesto The Owner, is back with Career Killer 3, a double-disc mixtape mostly produced by Evsclusive. Career Killer 2 was one of the better hip hop releases to come out of our city for the duration of 2010, but this latest one (which came out on...
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By Chris Mills | February 19, 2012 at 5:50 pm | No comments
[pictured: Sweater Beats (Team Bear Club)]
OK, I've finally figured out what I'm going to do about the seemingly hard-to-fetch ideas for Sunday posts at Demencha (CDs come out on Tuesdays, remember?). Every weekend I'm going to try to get gather my favorite soundcloud tracks...
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By Chris Mills | February 16, 2012 at 6:53 pm | No comments
KC-based DJ/producer, Spinstyles and KC-Portland transplant, Ben Tactic (Brent Tactic's partner in crime at Think 2Wice,) recently caught my ear while going through my soundcloud dashboard (I'm getting better at it). Spinstyles took a vocal from what I believe to be Houston rap...
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By Chris Mills | February 15, 2012 at 2:44 pm | One comment
GET THESE NOW. Levantine, Sweater Beats (Team Bear Club), Le Youth, Attack Yourself!, Vostok-1 and Futurewife brought some real flames on this free soundcloud remix project honoring the late Teddy Pendergrass. You have to go to the actual URL where the player is hosted,...
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By Chris Mills | February 13, 2012 at 5:52 pm | No comments
Kansas City lyricist, The Popper, is taking zero prisoners this year. Based on an announcement he recently made declaring at least one mixtape per month for 2012, his latest in conjunction with Hustlamade Bugz appears to be just the beginning. As you should expect with most...
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By Chris Mills | February 11, 2012 at 6:31 pm | No comments
When heRobust was visiting Leonard DStroy in Kansas City last summer, I was fortunate enough to meet him and bounce ideas between the three of us. As a bright individual, heRobust's beats shine similarly. Bass-driven, tastefully-eccentric compositions encased in a kind of...
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By Chris Mills | February 10, 2012 at 5:00 pm | No comments
Z-Sonic's latest moombahton spice-up comes courtesy of the Henrick Schwarz remix of "Feeling You" by Omar. We can dig this, and Sonic's more funky, less acidic tracks as of late in general. With Westport hosting Gusto Lounge, The Union and Riot Room (all dance-friendly venues)...
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By Chris Mills | February 10, 2012 at 3:32 pm | No comments
Kansas City-based producer (among other things), Phantom, is urging listeners and DJs to grab this one while it's hot before he disables the download allowance later tonight. For his latest uptempo effort, Afrojack's "Take Over Control" gets taken down a notch. We can see why...
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